Installation

Bob Verity

2021-05-26

Installing Rcpp

silverblaze relies on the Rcpp package, which requires the following OS-specific steps:

• Windows
  • Download and install the appropriate version of Rtools for your version of R. On installation, ensure you check the box to arrange your system PATH as recommended by Rtools
• Mac OS X
  • Download and install XCode
  • Within XCode go to Preferences : Downloads and install the Command Line Tools

Installing and loading silverblaze

Next, in R, ensure that you have the devtools package installed by running

install.packages("devtools", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')

Then install the silverblaze package directly from GitHub by running

devtools::install_github("Michael-Stevens-27/silverblaze")

If you have any problems installing then please raise an issue on github.

Assuming everything installed correctly, we need to load the package:

library(silverblaze)

You can test that the package is loaded and working by running the following command, which should produce this output:

check_silverblaze_loaded()

## silverblaze loaded successfully!